EASTER EGGER OR PRAIRIE BLUEBELL?!?!?

[The Five O]

Was the black and white one a brown chipmunk one too? They defintly are very different.

Unless you were referring to the black and white Americana in my other photos ?

 

[SilverBirds]

Most hatchery Easter Eggers will have beards. Prairie Bluebells typically do not. Many bluebells have more modified pea combs as well. Both of yours are EE.

Your first Black & White chick appears to be a cockerel.

 

[The Five O]

Most hatchery Easter Eggers will have beards. Prairie Bluebells typically do not. Many bluebells have more modified pea combs as well. Both of yours are EE.

Your first Black & White chick appears to be a cockerel.

Here is a picture of my prairie bluebell chick . Looks nothing like the EE chicks when they were small.

 

[Carrot_Mama]

Usually with Americana the three wide comb is male but not always. Curious what color it was as a chick so you have a picture?

What is a “three wide comb”?

 

[NatJ]

What is a “three wide comb”?

Sometimes a pea comb will look like three rows of little rounded bumps (like peas, the vegetable we eat).

Sometimes the rows of "peas" are not as obvious, and the comb looks like one less-wide lump.

That poster was saying a pea comb with three obvious rows is more common on male chicks and less common on female chicks. So they were thinking the chick in post #7, showing three distinct rows of "peas," might be male. (Pictured in the post just before the one you quoted.)

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Your PBEs will lay beautiful blue eggs. Your EEs may also, or lay more greenish eggs (or olive, pink or even brown).

 

[Carrot_Mama]

Sometimes a pea comb will look like three rows of little rounded bumps (like peas, the vegetable we eat).

Sometimes the rows of "peas" are not a obvious, and the comb looks like one less-wide lump.

That poster was saying a pea comb with three obvious rows is more common on male chicks and less common on female chicks. So they were thinking the chick in post #7, showing three distinct rows of "peas," might be male. (Pictured in the post just before the one you quoted.)

Thank you so very much!